Pot legalization activist Mason Tvert hopes New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has a very merry Christmas. He even sent her a Colorado-designed Christmas card on Friday — one that was inspired by Dowd’s long, strange trip in Colorado.

After Dowd tripped hard due to eating too much pot-infused edibles in Denver, she wrote about it in a much-derided column for the Times. The Marijuana Policy Project, Tvert’s employer, responded with an ad campaign, complete with billboards, that used Dowd’s red-haired likeness and urged people to consume responsibly: “With edibles, start low and go slow.”

If Dowd didn’t make it her Christmas card, the Marijuana Policy Project made it theirs — and sent one to Dowd.

(Marijuana Policy Project)

Tvert said it was good timing for a reminder: “The message is just as important this holiday season as it was earlier this year. Eating too many marijuana edibles will not make for a very merry Christmas.”

Ricardo Baca is the editor of The Cannabist. After 12 years as The Denver Post's music critic and a couple more as the paper's entertainment editor, he was tapped to become The Post's first ever marijuana editor and create The Cannabist in late-2013. Baca also founded music blog Reverb and co-founded music festival The UMS.

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